By Rondi Lauterbach Tracy is a woman in our church who could fit into both “younger” and “older” categories in Titus 2. She’s still very much in the middle of raising their only child, but she also decided to help mentor Sylvia (not her name), a still younger woman with three little ones. Q: Why did...

By Matt Capps How God Changed My Heart Toward Adoption When I was younger I never envisioned myself as an adoptive father. Adoption was alien to me as a familial concept, and the reality of orphans was nothing more than an abstract category in my mind. I assume that all men at some point in...

  By Keri Folmar There is no other gospel.  This is the message of Galatians. Jesus, the precious and infinite Son of God, “gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age” (v. 4).  God the Father poured out his wrath on Jesus instead of on rebels who deserve his punishment. ...

By Candice Watters  (Editor’s Note: If you have questions that you would like answered, please send them to [email protected]) QUESTION Newly engaged, my fiancé and I are thinking about what a Christian wedding looks like. How can we plan a wedding which glorifies God and not the couple? ANSWER Congratulations on your engagement—it’s a joy...

by Evan Lenow This semester I have been watching a series of lectures from Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard, on the issue of justice. In one of those lectures, he referenced advertisements that ran in the Harvard Crimson seeking egg and sperm donors for infertile couples. In the course of the lecture Dr....

By Jasmine Baucham  I recently came to grips with a tremendously difficult truth: not everyone is going to be pleased with me. Yep. I’ll give you a minute to revive yourself from that faint before I continue. It doesn’t matter what I do or say or think, when it comes to some people, I will...